-14pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 14 pp at The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls vs the 2003–2007 baseline (51.3% vs 65.2%).
Iowa · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls, Iowa. 101 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+96%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls are 96% above 6-year earnings ($10.7k → $21.0k).
+19%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls rose 19% between 2006 and 2009 (57.1% → 67.9%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Iowa
Each tile compares this institution to the Iowa median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$20,955+96% · 6→10y
Iowa median $42,849$10,696
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry51.3%-7% · '97→'09
Iowa median 58.4%$12,000+192% · '97→'20
At program completion101+406% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS74.1%-21% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
7.6%Median federal debt $12,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $20,955 (10y after entry).
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-21%
The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls · retention fell
81.0% → 63.8%
+37%
The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls · undergrad enrollment rose
18 → 91
+192%
The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls · median debt rose
$4,285 → $12,500
-100%
The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls · cohort default rate fell
13.8% → 0.0%
-37%
The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls · pell share fell
67.3% → 42.6%
+24%
The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls · earnings_median_10yr rose
$16,900 → $20,955
-30%
The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls · earnings_median_6yr fell
$15,300 → $10,696
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Iowa
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls graduates earn $X” — not “The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending The Salon Professional Academy-Cedar Falls caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.